I was in Tower one day when they had Aion on the system, and the track playing was The Song of the Sybil, which of course was stolen with pride and recognizably from the Catalan Sybyline prophesies that were first put down on paper in the middle ages (so it is reasonable to assume they were much older than that). It was enough to make an EM fanatic weep for joy that a "rock" group, if you could call Dead that, would put out a recording of medieval music (which hasn't happened since the Fifth Estate's Ding Dong the Witch is Dead incorporated one of Susato's little ditties). The album also included their version of a true EM staple, the ubiquitous Saltarello. About the same time as Aion was issued Jordi Saval and his band put out an entire disc of the sybiline prophesies with, if memory serves, all the verses, sung by the incomparable Monserrat Figueras. Boffo stuff.

I was sorry the group broke up, but Lisa Gerrard has done okay for herself, becoming only one of 2 women composers to make the list of the top 40 film score composers working today.